Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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